Awoke this morning to news of yet another automobile tragedy..man in florida crashes into daycare, killing a child and hurting 14 more.
the man, despite having a record, was able to get an automobile no questions asked..no federal background check. A simple background check would have kept this dangerous automobile out of this guys hands...but no, the automaker lobby is too strong and the laws allowing anyone to get an automobile remain lax.
When will america face the fact that we have an automobile addiction-thats costs the lives of thousands of children every year?? Why cant we join the rest of the civilized world and use mass transit???
End the madness now!!!!
You do understand the difference between an accident and someone who deliberately murders masses of people. I wonder about the average Americans ability to use logic, compares automobile accident to mass gun murders! Cars primary purpose = transportation - guns primary purpose = killing. And the criminal you are talking about isn't the one whose car plowed into the daycare, that was another driver who was rear ended by the guy with the record.
And while it is true that guns are simply tools and have no ability to harm anybody on their own, the assertion that they have no part in the perpetration of violence is absurd.
If properly motivated, somebody can kill their enemy with a pair of nail-clippers, but this is irrelevant to the greater regulatory scheme. Just because there are other ways for people to kill one another, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t in the public interest to restrict the most common way people currently kill each other.
Guns give people a quick, easy, cheap, and relatively detached (compared to stabbings/beatings) method of killing people—even large numbers of people. By making killing easy, guns directly contribute to the thought process that must go into a killing and facilitate even higher body counts. Without guns, people would still kill others, but it would be far more difficult to accrue high body counts.
There is a good reason why guns have become the mass murderer’s weapon of choice; they are simply the most efficient way of getting the job done. Weapons other than guns can be used to kill large numbers of people, but none are as easy to obtain or use as guns:
Bombs may be lethal to large numbers of people, but they take expertise to build and are very risky for an amateur to handle (just look at the number of people who manage to mangle themselves playing with fireworks).
Knives are lethal in the right hands, but they can only kill one person at a time and have no ability to kill at a distance.
Cars can been used to kill people but they are far too large and unwieldy to replace guns (you can’t exactly put one in your backpack to sneak into a school).
A tool may simply be a shortcut to a desired result, but it isn’t fair to say that the tool has no part in achieving a result. A man with a hammer and a man with a gun could kill an identical number of people, but the gun certainly makes it more likely that the person will succeed, faster in their killing spree, and more likely to kill their specific targets.
Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. However, people with guns can easily and quickly kill a lot of people, while those who don’t have guns, cannot. In a country flooded with guns, the mass murderer (or simply the person who wishes to kill one person) is able to obtain their weapon easily and without much risk. Gun control laws may not be perfect, but they are a start on a long road towards a safer America
